United States Geological Survey fire science: Fire danger monitoring and forecasting
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Abstract
Each day, the U.S. Geological Survey produces 7-day forecasts for all Federal lands of the distributions of number of ignitions, number of fires above a given size, and conditional probabilities of fires growing larger than a specified size. The large fire probability map is an estimate of the likelihood that ignitions will become large fires. The large fire forecast map is a probability estimate of the number of fires on federal lands exceeding 100 acres in the forthcoming week. The ignition forecast map is a probability estimate of the number of fires on Federal land greater than 1 acre in the forthcoming week. The extreme event forecast is the probability estimate of the number of fires on Federal land that may exceed 5,000 acres in the forthcoming week.
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| Publication type | Report |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | USGS Numbered Series |
| Title | United States Geological Survey fire science: Fire danger monitoring and forecasting |
| Series title | Fact Sheet |
| Series number | 2012-3121 |
| Subseries | Geographic Analysis and Monitoring Program |
| DOI | 10.3133/fs20123121 |
| Edition | Version 1.0: Originally posted October 29, 2012; Version 2.0: July 30, 2015 |
| Year Published | 2012 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | U.S. Geological Survey |
| Publisher location | Reston, VA |
| Contributing office(s) | Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center |
| Description | 2 p.; Data release |
| Country | United States |
| Online Only (Y/N) | Y |
| Additional Online Files (Y/N) | N |
| Google Analytic Metrics | Metrics page |